Preliminary Materials

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Chapter Summary

This front matter section of this book The Multiple Meaning of Scripture: The Role of Exegesis in Early-Christian and Medieval Culture contains the table of contents and a list of abbreviations. The book explores early-Christian and medieval biblical exegesis as the site of discourse on theological, philosophical and political issues and of the hermeneutics investigating the relation between the surface and the deeper meaning of the text.